John Rickford Now President of LSA
Congratulations to John Rickford, who is now officially the President of the Linguistic Society of America!
Issue 2015/01/16
Berkeley Workshop on ‘Speech Acts and Propositions’ (1/31)
Attention linguists! UC Berkeley is hosting a workshop on ‘The Action-Product Distinction and Its Importance for Speech Act Theory and Social Ontology’ on Saturday, January 31, 2015, from 10:00AM to 6:45PM.
The schedule is given below. Attendance is free but please register with Maura Vrydaghs at mararv@berkeley.edu.
Program
10.00 – 11.45: Pranav Anand (UCSC): ‘A Factive Split in Reporting Beliefs and Assertions’
11.45 – 12.00: Coffee
12.00 – 1.45: Cleo Condoravdi (Stanford): ‘Assertions, Declarations and Explicit Performatives’
1.45 – 3.00: Lunch
3.00 – 4.45: John Searle (Berkeley): ‘What is a Proposition?’
4.45 – 5.00: Coffee
5.00 – 6.45: Friederike Moltmann (CNRS-IHPST / NYU): ‘Cognitive, Illocutionary, and Modal Products’
New volume & website for Linguistic Issues in Language Technology
Linguistic Issues in Language Technology (LiLT), an open-access journal edited by Annie Zaenen, Bonnie Webber, and Martha Palmer, has a new volume out and a new CSLI-hosted web location: check it out here.
Will Leben in New York Times Magazine article on product naming
A really interesting NYT Magazine article with lengthy sections about Will Leben – check it out here.
Look Who’s Talking!
Dan Lassiter will present “Adjectival vagueness in a Bayesian Model of Interpretation” at UCSD’s Cognitive Science 200 speaker series on Friday 1/23, and also at a UCLA Linguistics colloquium the following Friday.